What Can Geolocation Do For You?
With the introduction of this and other similar user-friendly geolocation plugins (great explanation of what it does here), the challenge of discovering where your visitors/users/customers are coming from and directing them to content that meets their needs has largely been met. A host of new plugins are now working on trying to extend the functions and uses of geolocation for your WordPress website.
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The number of extensions for bbPress is growing rapidly. bbPress Topic Location is a new plugin from G.Breant that lets you add geolocation information to bbPress topics. It is powered by W3C Geolocation so the plugin can actually guess your current location if your browser has this feature.
After you activate the plugin, you’ll get a new “topic location” field added to the new topic form.
Topics will appear in the topics list with their locations beneath them.
Location check-ins are an exciting part of social networks that let members keep track of their friends doing fun things in fun places. Users love to broadcast their locations and the option to check in keeps them coming back to visit the site, especially via mobile devices.
If you have the need to display different content based on your readers’ location, you’ll want to check out the new WP Geocode plugin. It gives publishers the ability to customize content based on the geolocation information of the person reading the post.
WP Geocode is easy to use, because it makes use of shortcodes in order to include location data in posts and post titles. You can also use the shortcodes within posts in order to tailor the content based on the readers’ proximity or location.
Settings are easily configured through the plugin’s options panel in the dashboard:
